here a defense department official spent a lot of money on furniture for pregnant mrs. kennedy if she went into labor and he's furious. >> wasn't to find out who paid for that furniture and i want the incompetent who took his picture next to mrs. kennedy's bed. i wouldn't have him running a cat house. >> reporter: nowhere are the tapes more moving and revealing than the secret moral issue than the struggle for civil rights. the great issue tearing the country apart. and after a young man james meredith creates a crisis by enrolling in the all white university of mississippi. >> james meredith was inspired by my father's inaugural address and decided then he wanted to enter the university of mississippi. so then this whole drama unfolded. >> reporter: this is the president taking on the staunch segregation as the governor of mississippi wanted to inject meredith into an angry mop. >> why don't you give an order to have him removed? >> how can i remove him? when there's a riot in the street? he may step out of that building and asking happen to him. i can't remove him und